The phrase "a course in how" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an educational program or class that teaches a specific method or process.
Example: "I enrolled in a course in how to effectively manage time and increase productivity."
Alternatives: "a class on how" or "a program in how".
"This isn't a course in how to chant.
They may be offered a course in how to be a good shop assistant.
The Sea School for merchant sailors in St Petersburg, for example, has boosted enrolment by offering a course in how to handle Somali pirates.
This year she took a course in how to be a clown and organized volunteers to dress up as clowns and visit children in Manhattan hospitals.
And it's really not a course just in blogging; it's a course in how to get the most out of the Internet, how to get the most out of all this connectivity.
If the parents don't feel up to the job, they can turn to IvyWise, a service that, for a fee ranging from three thousand to forty thousand dollars, gives students a course in how to get into college.
That was Fisher's "life in a day," a crash course in how much he loved the game he gets to play for a living and how inconsequential it really was.
In Part Two of a five-part series, we get a crash course in how to be a professional commentator – or "shoutcaster" – at the studios of one of the most popular eSports YouTube channels.
You can see why he was offered a place on the Teach First scheme, which takes bright graduates for a crash course in how to be a successful teacher in a challenging school.
She gave an almost 30 minute acceptance speech, which was more like a crash course in how to be a rockstar AND hit songwriter and live; she recalled how she would shut the press down during interviews.
"I thought maybe I should call Hans Zimmer," he says, referring to the German composer who scored Gladiator and The Dark Knight, "and see if I could hang out with him and make coffee for him for a while and take a crash course in how the fuck you score films.
